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Children, Welfare and the State

Children, Welfare and the State

Barry Goldson | Michael Lavalette | Jim McKechnie

(2002)

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Abstract

`A good foundation for those intent on further research' - ChildRight

`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written' - Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury

`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible way' - Professor Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the study of `children' and `childhood' within the social sciences. Children, Welfare and the State provides readers with a comprehensive critical introduction to modern childhood studies.

In addition to engaging with the broad theoretical debates within the `new' sociology of childhood and developmental psychology the book:

- Explores key questions in relation to researching childhood, children's agency and social constructionist perspectives;

- Traces historical and contemporary developments in social policy responses to children and childhood;

- Examines the primary sites of state intervention in regulating and shaping children's lives.

- Re-states the primary significance of social class and other structural divisions in understanding children's experiences of childhood;

- Systematically assesses the impact of inequality and poverty on children and childhood.

Children, Welfare and the State has been tailored to appeal to those studying children and childhood within social policy, sociology, psychology, criminology, history, social work and youth and community work courses.
`A good foundation for those intent on further research' - ChildRight

`It is intelligent, lively, clear, and well written' - Professor Hugh Cunningham, University of Kent at Canterbury

`This is an excellent source book which is up-to-date and covers key debates on childhood in an accessible way' - Professor Andy Furlong, University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
List of illustrations;
Acknowledgements;
Part 1: The war and its aftermath 1942-59;
1. Fanatics; soft-heads; and sentimental idealists; 
2. Winning the peace: the moral aftermath of war
3. Asylum is an affair of the heart;
Part 2: Sunrise over the third world: the 1960's;
4. A crusade for our times;
5. The shoals of controversy;
6. Acts of God and acts of man;
Part 3: The age of alternatives: the 1970's;
7. In Gandhi's footsteps;
8. Bargaining for a better world;
9. To have more and to be more;
Part 4: The business of compassion: the 1980's;
10. To the killing fields;
11. Black man's burden revisited;
12. Campaign for a fairer world;
Epilogue; An Oxfam Chronology;
Sources and references;
Index